Perfoeating-machine



R. N. WILUAMS.

PERFORATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 19:7.

Patented July 15, 1919.

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TED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT NEIL WILLIAMS, OF NORWICH, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO POWERS ACCOUNTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

PERFORATING-MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919,

Application filed November 10, 1917. Serial No. 201,227.

1 0 at! whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ROBERT NEIL IL- LrAMs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Norwich, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-s in and Relating to Perforating- Machines, of which the following is a specincation.

This invention relates to improvements in perforating machines designed more particularly for use in the perforation of cards for tabulating and like machines, which cards are divided into. a number of fields, such fields representing the various data or matters concerned.

In use the cards are passed through a tabulating machine with which are associated counters, whereby the value represented by the various perforations in each field in successive cards are added together.

Hitherto in machines for producing rec ords in the form of perforated cards or the like, although provision has been made for producing aperforation or series of perforations consequential to the operation of keys for producingother perforations the conse quential perforationshave borne an immutable relation to the key or keys operated The present invention has for its object to provide for the controlling of the punches for the consequential perforations in a manner such that their production or non-production instead of bearingan immutable relation to the keys actuated, shall be dependent upon certain laws the fulfilment 0r non-fulfilment of which shall control the production of the consequential perforations. In other words While the operation of a certain key or keys for the main punches also prepares or sets the punch for the formation of the consequential perforation the operation of another key or other keys may neutralize the first setting and either permit [or prevent the operation of the said punch for the formation of the consequential perforationaccordingly as the requirements or" the basic law are or are not fulfilled.

As an example of the application of the invention, assuming it is desired to take a America, the returns would have to be cx- I alnined to ascertain Whether the individual were, for instance, a male twenty-one years of age or over, of native birth or naturalized, not a pauper unless a veteran, and not mentally unfit. Under these circumstances the mental operation necessary to determine the qualified from the unqualified would have to be repeated at great number of times, say 110,000,000. By means of the present invention the operator will, in recording the facts appropriate to each individual, automatically record the fact that such individualis or is not qualified to vote. The operating surfaces on the main punch setting slides are so arranged that a consequential setting of the qualifying punch is automatically secured. Thus for example assuming the punch controlling slides to have been set to produceqa perforation consequent upon the recording by the operator. of the facts that the individual is white, naturalized, not a pauper, twenty-one years of age or over. The facts so recorded are in favor of the individual heir qualified to vote. if; however, the fact is r t recorded that the said individual is an idiot, the setting previously given to produce perforation by the voting punch altered, and no perforation will bc made.

ter understood, drawings are a ppcnded illustratii the application of the invention, for the purpose of preparing a census as just described, to a. g forating machine such forms the sub tct of my Patent, No. 1,086,397, issued February 10, "191;

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a side elevation partly in section showing the invention applied to a known type of punching machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan to a larger scale of certain parts showing their illfitlfil'l to the slides.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view takesv on line AA Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is'a similar view on line BB Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view showing more or less diagrammatica-lly of the Working of the carts In the drawings in which only such parts of the main portion of the machine are illus settable slides carriec 3. The

- positioning of the slides is effected by means pf levers =1 which engage the inner ends of the slides 1 as shown and which levers then1- selves are actuated 'by means of the slidslide 9 and from which they pass on to a.

perforated plate 10 disposed beneath the punches and carried by a vertically reciprocating frame 11. As the frame 11 rises the card indicated by a: will be raised with it and be perforated-by the particular punch which is prevented from rising by the aforesaid projection 6. Mounted upon the guide plate 12 for the punches in any suitable manner is a plate 12*.

The arrangement and setting of the said slides and the operation of the punches is as described in my Patent No. 1,0863397. issued February 10, 1914. Arranged to slide vertically within. perforations formed in a plate 12 in which they are mounted in any suitable manner such that their rotation is prevented, are plugs indicated respectively by 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, each of said plugs at their lower ends being in engagement with the upper edge of a slide 1 which slide controls the operation of the punches 7. The plugs 13 and 14 register with the age recording row of punches, the plug 15 with the pauper recording row of punches, the plug 16 with the veteran recording row of punches, the plug 17 with the idiot recording row of punches, and the plug 18 with the alien recording row of punches. To reduce friction at the point of conta t of the plugs with the slides said plugs are preferably provided with rollers 19. The plugs just referred to are each provided at their upper ends with an inclined surface as shown in Fig. 3 which surfaces are adapted to engage correspondingly inclined surfaces, the purpose of which is hereafter niore fully described, provided upon a horizontally disposed slide indicated by 20 mounted upon the aforesaid plate 12 and which slide is held against vertical displacement by a plate 21 beneath which the slide is freely movable. The plugs 13 to 18 are controlled by means of inclined surfaces formed upon the upper edges of the aforesaid slides 1 which slides and plugs, as shown upon the drawings, represent the various qualifications or disqualifications which govern the capacity or otherwise of the person dealt with to the right to vote. I11 addition to the aforesaid punches 7 there is provided a punch 22 controlled by means of the extension 23 by'ihe aforesaid slide 20. The punch just referred to for the purpose of identification is hereafter referred to as the voter punch. Slidably mounted upon slide 20 by means of the pins 23" projecting from the side of the plate 20 and passing through slots 24 is a plate formed in two parts w y one resting upon the other. The plates just referred to are connected by a spring 25 the tendency of which is to hold theplates w y together, and in a position such that the pins 23 are normally in the position shown in Fig. 3. The plates at 3 are however capable of independent motion so that when required as will be hereafter explained the upper plate 3 may be pushed backward against the act-ion of the spring 25 to permit the slide 20 to be drawnback by its spring 26. It will be understood that the spring 25 is stronger than the spring 26 provided for effecting the return of slide 20. A stop or abutment 27 is provided on plate m to limit the movement of the upper plate 9' under the action of spring 25, The backward movement of plate y is effected by means of the pltw 16. A spring 28 is provided to return plates 00 and y. A stop 50 on the plate 00 cooperating in the slot 51 formed in the plate 12, is provided to. limit the extent of movement of plate a: under sprin 28.

The voter punch 22 will punch a hole registering a qualified voter if the movement of the pin 23 is blocked by the slide 20 when the card is lifted, that is unless the recess 29 adjacent to the end of the slide is in position so as to give the pin 23 a free upward passage. The slide 20 is normally retained by its spring 26, in a position that the pin 23 is so blocked and such thatthe inclined surfaces 30, 31, 32 of such slide 20 abut against the inclined surfaces 33, 37, 38 of the plugs 13, 17 and 18 respectively as shown in Fig. 3. The surfaces 39 and 40 are formed upon projections respectively upon the main slide 20 and plate y while the surface 41 is formed upon the inner ends of plates as y, the remaining surfaces are upon the slide 20. The plugs 13 to 18 are lifted by the configuration of the upper surfaces of the punch slides 1 which surfaces are shown and identified by the numerals 42 to 47, in Figs. 5, 4:, and the different positions of which slides correspond to the lines 0 to 9.

When, during the perforation of a card, any one or more of the descriptions alien, idiot, pauper, or minority apply, the slide 20 is moved over to clear the pin 23 so that the veteran punch 22 will not be actuated in the ensuing cycle of operation to produce a thereto the veteran description applies.

Taking first the age punches when the movement of the slide having the surface 42 representing the tens of age, brings the O osition of said slide under the plug 13, the rejection. 6 is over the punch so render- ?Jg said 9 punch effective. The plug 13 is raised at positions 0 and 1 and indicates that those persons less than 19 years or" age have no vote, in other Words the voter punch is non-eil'ective. in position 2 the elevation is only hell the total amount, the eiiect of which is that for people in the twenties the tens slide does not take away the vote unless the unit slide having the surface 48 is in the position 0. Qn the forward movement of the slide 20 by the plug 13 as aforesaid the projection carrying surface 39 Figs. SE and has been brought over the vertical plug 14 and consequently the slide 20 for the individuals of 20 years will receive half of its movement from the tens plug 13 arid the other hall from the units plug 1e. By this combination, ages in the thirties and above would not cause the slide 20 to move at all, since the is would miss the surface 39. The 20 when actuated for persohs be-' tween 21 and :29 will only have a half ino- L V the nod surface 41 on the plate a and push i spri L the plate y to the right. it i'h same time the plate 20 by reason of pin and slot connection between it and i, y will also he moved in the direction unless the slide 20 were already locked by the plugs 13 end i The spring Q? is under tension but as already explained it is enough to overcome the power of the spring; 26 against which it is pulling by reason of the aforesaid connection, betw en plate 3/ and plate 20. If, however, the slug- 16 (veteran) is raised, it will come into contact with the inclined'surface on plate and the movement of plate in being prevented by the previously raised pauper plug- 15 the said plug 16 will push the plate y to die loft against the action of spring allmviug'spring 26 to draw the slide 20 backward accordingly as its return is or is not prevented hy the raising of any other plug. age 13 and 14, idiot or alien. When pauper and veteran plugs have opmovement of the slide 20 is therefore ed by other considerations-such ital incapacity and nae":ionality,v l'lhviously the arrangement may be sue as to produce a perforation corresponding to a 9; also carry 'tion, which would not free the upward pas v p te :11 to the ri iit and by means of the any desired combination of perforations in any of the fields.

Claims:

1. In a perforating machine means for the production of secondary perforetions which are consequential to the of certain puncl'les torprnducing main or orimai'y perforations, means whereby the ting of the punch for producing the seconeary perforations may be altered in couse' quence of the settin of other punches "for producing primary perforations, whereby the foima-tion of the secondary perforation is controlled by a plurality of settings of the primary punches.

2. In a perforating machine means for the production of secondary perforations Which are consequential to the setting of certain punches for producing main or primary perforations, comprising a series of primary punches, a secondary punch, settahle slides controlling the primary; punches, a second slide controlling the secondary punch, means operated by the slides of the primary punches to operate the slide of the secondpunch whereby the format-ion of the secondary perforation is controlled by a. plurality oi settings of slides for the primer Y punch. l .ln a perforating machine means the production of secondary perforations which are consequential to the S'Qttll certain punches for producing main OZ oerforations, comprising a so 1 y punches, a secondary punch, sett:

ontrolling said primary punches. aces upon said primary punch slides, iertically disposed bodies, desi to cnga e the cam surfaces, inclined upon said vertically disposed bodies ha inclined surfaces designed to c the surfaces on the yerti .illy disp sod bodies, a secondary punch controlled bf, the aforesaid slide, the cam surfaces on the slides and the surfaces 'upon the vertical bodies and upon the punch controlling the secondary slide being so related that the formation of the secondary pcrforation'is controlled by a plurality of settings of the priicia unchesl nony whereof my signature the presence of two Witnesses.

ROBERT Nlllll lVlL-LIAMS.

ti losses STELLA McLAReN,

EDWARD BREAME. 

